Hello, old friend…

Big Movie Studios don’t want you to know this one trick - that you can easily rip your physical media, and do WHATEVER you want with it. That is, if you watch this video to learn how! It’s not exactly piracy, but not exactly LEGAL across the globe either.

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Step by Step guide to setting up your drive for Blu-ray ripping:

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Legality =/= Morality
1:40 How to rip Blu-rays
2:35 Remuxing
3:35 ReEncoding
4:59 A (brief) History of Optical Disc Piracy
6:59 WHY you should rip your Blu-Rays
11:43 Plastic is better than Digital

[crzyg]

One minute you learn to rip movies, the next minute you're building a 160TB JBOD array

[xuxiiwee]

As we always say; if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

[SniperTeamTango]

The fact that this is coming up today right after getting into a tiff with autodesk about the fact that their perpetual licenses are in fact no longer perpetual but they are not going to refund me the quarter of a car that I paid for their software was all the encouragement I needed

[MacCrunch]

The current state of digital laws really deters from the longevity and authorship you gain by owning the physical copy.

[Ghetsis]

“What I’m about to tell you isn’t technically legal.”

…Well that’s a strong start

[clark]

The worst is that even if I wanted to buy the shows that I love legally, they will instead insist that you continually "rent" them for $15 a month.

[aunthegeek]

Richard Stallman, when asked about his opinion on piracy said, *"attacking ships is bad, sharing is good"*

[BlackPanthaa]

Just filled my first NAS and TV cabinet with BDs and DVDs. Feels good 😎

[jsmurray]

Linus gets it, ripping discs today isn't and shouldn't be about piracy. It's a way for us to purchase films we love, supporting the artists that create them, and with that disc we get a physical copy to store on our shelf as well as the opportunity to add them to our digital libraries. Even better, Blu-ray and 4K discs are usually the highest quality version of the films available, beating streaming services.

[costafilh]

I'm pirating this video for educational purposes before it gets removed by YouTube.

[pablo-znmg]

the fact that we don’t own anything anymore is disconcerting.
From our software for work, our games, our music and movies, heck even our hardware, we’re not allowed to fix or tweak our computers as we want, even under warranty.
So thank you for sharing this.
I have a somewhat large collection of BDs and 4K’s and it might be time to give them a backup.

[McKluskie]

its also worth a mention that 3D MVC full resolution ripped blurays can now be played on the quest 3 using an app called 4XVR so those who no longer have a 3DTV and have an extensive 3D bluray collection.

[entechcore]

I have over 700 hours in GTA V and recently got a popup saying "Activation Required". Support said the key I used had already been used. Yeah, no wonder, because I used it!
First time I've had to resort to other methods to play the game that I BOUGHT.

[tardvandecluntproductions]

This used to be legal in the Netherlands, if you owned media, you where allowed to rip it and use copies of it (for household) where you please.
We even have a tax for it on all media with digital storage.
Law was taken down, tax was kept. typical.

[tjw]

My father had a very large collection of DVDs and Blurays (~650) and knew of Disc Rot. Setting up a Jellyfin server was my best solution. The discs are now safe/irrelevant, he doesnt need to pay for streaming and/or endure ads. All that ripping and encoding took forever though and deploying small homserver did cost some money, but now everyone is happy. And i dont see any MORAL problem with this, he bought the discs. Now i honly have to come in and renew the letsencrypt cert every now and then.

[divine_architek]

Make no mistake we are seeing this in the music world as well with a major company, Waves, suddenly and without warning putting all of their widely used tools behind a subscription paywall and refusing updates for any previous owners. Meaning that as we upgrade our computer systems and update our OSes, we can never redownload or reuse our old software ever again as there would be no compatibility unless you are on the subscription service. These are tools that are also widely used and recommended in the industry from the highest tier professional engineers to some of the up-in-coming artists. While this got major backlash and they reverted back to their old model, I figure just like how these streaming companies slowly but surely take away more and more from the end user, these audio software companies are not too far away from following suit. That is why I am moving towards physical units for my audio tools. Analog or digital, it doesn't matter to me what the unit is, so long as the only way the product can be taken from me is by breaking into my studio and trying to pry it from my cold dead hands. The less I can rely on proprietary software the better. Copyright law has made life worse for so many.

[MrFuzziiWuzzii]

Born too late to sail the high seas with a ragtag team of scallywags.
Born too early to traverse space time with a cyberpunk team of scallywags.
Born at the right moment to sail the cyber high seas.

[Kaptime]

makemkv carrying the whole modern physical media enjoyer scene on it's back. Thanks Mike.

[brizlebre]

I typically like LTT videos, but every once in a while LTT puts out a masterpiece and I got to say this is one of them.

[techgroveusa]

Ripping your own Blu-rays not only allows for better control of your own content but also serves as a means of rewarding creators for their hard work.